Artists as inspiration — Zoe Coughlan

Art Nouveau designs: flowers and pattern

artists, comparative studyZoe CoughlanSeptember 1, 2020art nouveau, plants, flowers, organic, design, architecture

Katsumi Hayakawa: intricately constructed paper cityscapes

artistsZoe CoughlanAugust 30, 2020city, paper, construction, architecture, buildings, obsession, japanes

Yoshitaka Amano - anime, illustration and characters

artistsZoe CoughlanAugust 28, 2020anime, illustration, pop, character, myth, japanese, scale, narrative

Christina Mrozik - metaphor and image come together in beautiful graphite and watercolour drawings

artistsZoe CoughlanAugust 27, 2020women, drawing, watercolour, birds, natural, death, heart, metaphor, symbol

Kehinde Wiley: appropriation, representation and religious iconography

artists, comparative studyZoe CoughlanAugust 25, 2020religious, appropriation, representin, representation, portrait, pattern, iconography, symbol

History, narrative, technology: Stephanie Syjuco

artistsZoe CoughlanAugust 24, 2020women, technology, media, social, change, narrative, installation, audience, textile, costume, history, politics

Genetics and art

artistsZoe CoughlanAugust 12, 2020women, technology, dna, computer

Corita Kent - American pop artist and nun

Zoe CoughlanJuly 18, 2020women, pop art, activism, text, words

Amy Sherald portraits of African Americans in greyscale

artistsZoe CoughlanJune 16, 2020wom, African American, portrait, figure, painting, grey scale, titles

Yinka Shonibare - sculpture, colonialism, globalisation

Zoe CoughlanJune 12, 2020

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: art, architecture and entrepreneurship

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: art, architecture and entrepreneurship

artistsZoe CoughlanJune 8, 2020Christo, wrap, wrapping, fabric, textile, installation, architecture, ideation, drawing

Rembrandt's "The Night Watch" in hyper detail

artists, comparative studyZoe CoughlanMay 29, 2020Rembrandt, painting, oil painting, Dutch, narrative

But is it art?

ToKZoe CoughlanMay 26, 2020Grayson Perry, what is art

How to be an artist

inspirational quotesZoe CoughlanMay 21, 2020how to be an artist, make art

Those who get it

inspirational quotesZoe CoughlanMay 19, 2020David Shrigley

Berger on Drawing

inspirational quotesZoe CoughlanMay 16, 2020drawing, John Berger, contours, edges

Mike Kelly - Pay for your pleasure

ToKZoe CoughlanMay 12, 2020Mike Kelly, morality

What do we do about immoral artists?

ToKZoe CoughlanMay 10, 2020scul, Eric Gill, morality, value, ethics

Janet Echelman - TED talkTaking imagination seriously

artistsZoe CoughlanMay 7, 2020women, net, knot, craft, India, sculpture

Work, don’t think

inspirational quotesZoe CoughlanMay 7, 2020Sally Mann, advice for artists